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BY ,4 MW 1 ArroR/vn Patented Sept. 4', 1945 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE TO-Y Robert W. Marshall, Sa ta Clara, Calif. Application April so, 1943, Serial No. 485,183

6 Claims.

This invention relates to toy guns, and more especially to a gun which simulates a machine or tommy gun, and which can be made entirely of one material, such as wood.

An object of the invention is to provide a simple 5 inexpensive play gun for children, as well as a practice gun for recruits, which, when operated in a simple manner, will produce a realistic rattle or noise similar to shooting off a machine gun-or tommy gun, as used by present-day soldiers.

Another object is to provide a noise-making device of the clapper or tic-tac type, in combination with a war-likegun.

A further object is to provide a childs toy which, in these war days of metal scarcity, can be made entirely of another material, such as wood.

All these and other objects, as suggested herebelow, are attained by the method and means now to be described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which I Figure 1 is a side elevational view of a preferred embodiment of the invention, in realistic proportions to simulate a present-day tommy un. 25

Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view, taken through plane 2-2 of Fig. 1, showing the details of the noise-making elements, and

Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary side-eleva-v tional view, showing the operating handle with its noise-making elements.

Like numerals refer to like parts throughout the several views.

In the embodiment shown, the device comprises a main body-and-handle member Ill, shaped as shown, one end being stock-shaped, to fit against the shoulder when in use, and the lower edge near the other end being formed into a series of arc-shaped scallops Illa, the noisemaking purpose of which will be hereafter described. This member may be cut from an inchthick board.

Longitudinally positioned above scallops Illa, and cut into each surface of member Ill is an elongated slot l4, Figs. 1 and 2. Fastened along the upper straight edge of member [0, which has been concaved to receive it, as shown in Fig. 2, is a. tubular member or dowel I l to simulate the gun barrel. Its outer end terminates in another dowel l2, of smaller diameter, concentrically set into its end; and a concentric hole [3 is bored into this outer gun barrel end, to more realistically simulate an actual bored-out gun barrel. The shape of this part of the barrel is shown in inset cross section in Fig. 1,

A trigger l5, and guard wire l6, shown in Fig. 1, may also be made of wood, if desired, and is only for the purpose of effect.

The noise-making handle I! is shaped to simulate the holding handle of the tommy gun, only in this. case it is moved longitudinally to make the noise ofshooting the gun. It consists of the inner member ll, with its center portion cut away from the top edge, as shown by dotted outline in Fig. 3, with thinner side members [8, 19 secured thereto and extending beyond the upper edge thereof, substantially as shown. Strips 22, 23 are slidably positioned in groove i4, and the assembled handle brought over them, when the inner upper-edge surfaces of members l8, IQ are secured, as with brads, to said strips 22, 23, as clearly shown in Fig. 2.

Before the handle H i thus positioned, however, a flexible strip or noise-making reed or clapper 2|, Figs. 2 and 3, has been secured in a slot below the cut-out portion of member I l, and projects upwardly, its upper end being long enough when positioned on the gun stock to engage between the scallops thereof, and, when flexed while being pushed in either direction, to ride over the top of each scallop. And as it is released from each scallop in this way, it springs against the near edge of the next scallop with a clap-like sound, which, multiplied rapidly by movement of the handle along all the scallops, simulates with surprising realism the sound of shooting the tommy gun.

In operation, the child or embryo soldier places the gun against his shoulder in the usual way, sights along the barrel or along simulated sights thereon (not shown), grabs the handle I1 and pushes it back and' forth to make the desired noise.

The hollow construction of handle ll, with its diaphragm-like thin sides, forming a chamber for reed 2i, intensifies'the sound thereof, and its realism. Variations in sound may be eiTected by making the reed of metal or other material, and altering the acoustical effects of its container, and the co-acting scallops. Other variations to the main invention will readily suggest themselves.

, Having now described the invention, what is claimed as new and for which Letters Patent of the United State are desired is:

1. A toy gun comprising a gun stock, a barrel attached thereto, and a handle adapted to be moved under the barrel and to and from the stock, said handle including means for making a noise when so moved.

2. The invention as in claim 1, there being a plurality of downwardly-extending scallops on the lower edge of the gun stock, and a flexible reed in the handle and adapted to engage said scallops successively during said movement to produce a noise.

3. The invention as in claim 1, said handle being hollow with surrounding acoustical surfaces and containing a flexible reed, and means on the gun stock for engagin and moving said reed to make a succession of sounds. 1

4. A noise-making device, including a hollow handle, a flexible reed therein, and a handlemounting member adapted to slidably hold the handle, said member including means co-acting with said reed for providing a series of sounds when relative movement is imparted to the handle and member. 1 v v 5. A toy tommy gun, comprising a gun stock, a barrel secured thereto, a slot in the stock, and

' a handle adapted to slide therein, the handle produce a staccato sound efiect upon the reciprocation as aforesaid.

ROBERT W. MARSHALL. 

